Erich Fromm’s moral antonyms
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https://doi.org/10.15584/nsawg.2024.3.1Keywords:
biophilia-necrophilia, productivity-alienation, to have-to be, growth syndrome-decay, humanistic religion-authoritarianAbstract
When interpreting reality, Erich Fromm used innovative words that were, at the same time, completely opposite in meaning, giving the chosen terms an antonymic quality. Moral antonyms include combinations such as authoritarian-humanistic religion, authoritarian-humanistic conscience, priests-prophets, man-wolf-sheep, authoritarian-heteronymous obedience, idolatry-faith, way of being, needs-desires, destructive-constructive needs, alienation-productivity, decay-growth syndrome and necrophilia-biophilia. By employing terms that serve as semantic counterweights, Fromm described the moral situation of both individuals and society.
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